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Christoph Reinhart Associate Professor Department of Architecture |
Profile
Christoph Reinhart is the coordinator for the GSD's Sustainable Design concentration area and head of the GSD-Squared research initiative. He currently teaches the two core environmental technology courses within the professional MArch I program (Energy Technology and Buildings and Environmental Technologies in Buildings) as well as two electives on Daylighting and Building Performance Simulation - Energy. In 2009, he was recognized by the Department of Architecture's Student Forum as Teacher of the Year. Before joining the GSD in June 2008 Christoph worked for over a decade as a staff scientist at the National Research Council of Canada and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Germany. He holds a doctorate degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Karlsruhe and master degrees in Physics from Albert Ludwigs Universität, Germany, and Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Dr. Reinhart’s research expertise is in daylighting, passive climatization and the influence of occupant behavior on building energy use. Together with his students he is developing new design workflows, tutorials and performance metrics that accommodate the complementary use of rules-of-thumb and simulations during building design. He is the main developer of the Daysim daylighting design tool and has led a number of simulation studies, field studies and occupant behavior surveys. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation and served as a guest editor for a special issue on 'Daylighting' in the Energy and Buildings journal. He has authored and co-authored over 75 scientific articles including two book chapters and chaired the scientific committee for esim 2008. Between 2005 and 2007 he was a member of the Technical Advisory Group for LEED-Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture at McGill University. From 2002 to 2006 he was a Subtask Leader within the International Energy Agency's Task 31 - Daylighting Buildings in the 21st Century research project. He has been invited to present his research at numerous universities and professional gatherings including MIT, the University of Toronto, Greenbuild and Lightfair. In November 2009 he will be the inaugural keynote speaker at the IBPSA-CH 1st Swiss Building and Urban Simulation Conference in Luzern, Switzerland. Previously he delivered keynote speeches at ENCAC 2007 in Ouro Preto, Brazil, and esim 2006 in Toronto, Canada. His research has been supported by a variety of public and private sector organizations including Autodesk, Kalwall, BC Hydro, the California Energy Commission and Natural Resources Canada.